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2009 Provincial and District Universal Basic Education Profile OTHER PUBLICATION Jeremy Goro EAST NEW BRITAIN Kilala Devette-Chee Peter Magury PROVINCE Daphney Kollin 2009 PROVINCIAL AND Martha Waim DISTRICT UNIVERSAL BASIC www.pngnri.org EDUCATION PROFILE September 2020 This page is intentionally left blank OTHER PUBLICATION EAST NEW BRITAIN Jeremy Goro Kilala Devette-Chee PROVINCE Peter Magury Daphney Kollin 2009 PROVINCIAL AND Martha Waim DISTRICT UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION PROFILE September 2020 First published in September 2020 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Copyright © 2020 The National Research Institute. Direct any inquiries regarding this publication to: The Publications Editor National Research Institute P.O. Box 5854 Boroko, NCD 111 Papua New Guinea Tel: +675 326 0300/326 0061; Fax: +675 326 0213 Email: [email protected] Website: www.pngnri.org The Papua New Guinea National Research Institute (PNG NRI) is an independent statutory authority established by an Act of Parliament in 1988 and confirmed by the IASER (Amendment) Act 1993. PNG NRI is mandated by legislation to carry out independent research and analysis on development issues affecting PNG. The legislation states that the functions of the PNG NRI are: (a) The promotion of research into Papua New Guinea society and the economy; and, (b) The undertaking of research into social, political and economic problems of Papua New Guinea in order to enable practical solutions to such problems to be formulated. ISBN 9980 75 277 7 National Library Service of Papua New Guinea ABCDE 202423222120 The opinions expressed in this report are those of the authors and not necessarily the views of the Papua New Guinea National Research Institute. Cover designed by PNG NRI Digital Media Unit Table of Contents Acknowledgement v Abbreviations and Acronyms vi Foreword vii Introduction 1 Provincial education system coverage 2 Overview of universal basic education indicators 3 Guide to data sources 6 Limitation of data 7 East New Britain Province 8 Gazelle District 12 Kokopo District 15 Pomio District 18 Rabaul District 21 Summary of findings 24 Bibliography 25 i List of Charts, Figures and Tables List of Tables Table 1: East New Britain Province - number of schools, classes, students and teachers by school level 9 Table 2: East New Britain Province - distribution of schools by district and school level 10 Table 3: East New Britain Province - number of schools by basic education providers 10 Table 4: East New Britain Province - net admission rates 11 Table 5: East New Britain Province - gross and net enrolment rates 11 Table 6: East New Britain Province - retention rates 11 Table 7: East New Britain Province - Grade 8 examination results by subject 11 Table 8: Gazelle District - number of schools, classes, students and teachers by school level 13 Table 9: Gazelle District - number of schools by basic education providers 13 Table 10: Gazelle District - net admission rates 14 Table 11: Gazelle District - gross and net enrolment rates 14 Table 12: Gazelle District - retention rates 14 Table 13:Gazelle District - Grade 8 examination results by subject 14 Table 14: Kokopo District - number of schools, classes, students and teachers by school level 16 Table 15: Kokopo District - number of schools by basic education providers 16 Table 16: Kokopo District - net admission rates 17 Table 17: Kokopo District - gross and net enrolment rates 17 Table 18: Kokopo District - retention rates 17 Table 19:Kokopo District - Grade 8 examination results by subject 17 Table 20: Pomio District - number of schools, classes, students and teachers by school level 19 Table 21: Pomio District - number of schools by basic education providers 19 Table 22: Pomio District - net admission rates 20 Table 23: Pomio District - gross and net enrolment rates 20 Table 24: Pomio District - retention rates 20 Table 25: Pomio District - Grade 8 examination results by subject 20 Table 26: Rabaul District - number of schools, classes, students and teachers by school level 22 Table 27: Rabaul District - number of schools by basic education providers 22 Table 28: Rabaul District - net admission rates 23 Table 29: Rabaul District - gross and net enrolment rates 23 Table 30: Rabaul District - retention rates 23 Table 31: Rabaul District - Grade 8 examination results by subject 23 Table 32: Summary of East New Britain Province‘s Performance in UBE in 2009 24 ii List of Figures Figure 1: East New Britain Province map and population figures 8 Figure 2: East New Britain Province - basic education distribution 9 Figure 3: East New Britain Province - basic education providers 10 Figure 4: Gazelle District map 12 Figure 5: Gazelle District - basic education distribution 13 Figure 6: Gazelle District - basic education providers 13 Figure 7: Kokopo District map 15 Figure 8: Kokopo District - basic education distribution 16 Figure 9: Kokopo District - basic education providers 16 Figure 10: Pomio District map 18 Figure 11: Pomio District - basic education distribution 19 Figure 12: Pomio District - basic education providers 19 Figure 13: Rabaul District map 21 Figure 14: Rabaul District - basic education distribution 22 Figure 15: Rabaul District - basic education providers 22 iii iv Acknowledgement We are indebted to the Department of Education (DoE) for the use of its 2009 National Annual School Census data to compile the East New Britain Province 2009 Provincial and District Universal Basic Education Profile. We would like to thank the National Statistical Office (NSO) for providing the soft copies of the district and provincial maps, and for the 2009 population figures used in the profiles. We also thank Lewis Iwong for modifying the base maps. We wish to express our sincere appreciation to Dr Thomas Webster, Dr Charles Yala and Dr David Ayers for their insights, encouragement and passion for the project. We acknowledge the efforts of our colleagues, Peter Kerrison and the staff of the Knowledge Management Division, for layouts of the profiles, the research cadets for their help with data downloading and formatting, and Dr Esther Lavu for her invaluable comments during the drafting of the profiles. About the Authors Jeremy Goro is a Research fellow in the Universal Basic Education Research Program at the PNG National Research Institute. He has a Master of Education specialising in research and pedagogy from the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. His research interest areas include education and curriculum reforms, understanding issues in higher education, economics of education, governance of education and cross-cutting issues in education. He also has research interest in governance and service deliveries in Papua New Guinea. Dr Kilala Devette-Chee is a Senior Research Fellow and the Program Leader of the Universal Basic Education Program at the PNG National Research Institute. She holds a PhD in Educational Linguistics and Masters in English Language Teaching from the University of Canberra as well as a Postgraduate Diploma in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from the Australian National University. Her current research interest is in the fight and advocacy for quality education which is the foundation to creating sustainable development. As vice chair of the PNG Education Advocacy Network and the South Pacific female representative in the Asia South Pacific Association for Basic & Adult Education’s (ASPBAE) Executive Council, which promotes equitable quality education and promotes life-long learning for all, Dr Devette-Chee advocates for “leaving no child behind”. Peter Michael Magury is a Research Fellow with the Development Indicators Research Program at the PNG National Research Institute. Prior to that Mr Magury was a Research Fellow with the Universal Basic Education (UBE) Research Program. His current projects include the 2019 selected education indicators of access, retention and quality at agreed geographical levels and understanding the basic concept of Access, Retention, and Quality Indicators in UBE Plan 2010–2019. Mr Magury received his bachelor’s degree in science from the University of Papua New Guinea and his master’s degree in statistics from the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne. Following his master’s degree, Mr Magury served as a principle statistician overseeing the statistics unit and the Education Management Information System (EMIS) at the Department of Education. His research and development interests are in the areas of social statistics and indicators for policy formulation and analysis, monitoring and evaluation of social indicators. Daphney Kollin and Martha Waim were research cadets working under the Universal Basic Education Program at the time this report was written. Both had graduated from the University of Papua New Guinea with Bachelors in Economics in 2017. v Abbreviations and Acronyms CRR cohort retention rate DoE Department of Education EMIS Education Management Information System GER gross enrolment rate LLG local-level government NAR net admission rate NER net enrolment rate NRI National Research Institute PES Provincial Education System PNG Papua New Guinea SDA Seventh Day Adventist UBE Universal Basic Education Glossary of terms Elementary education Programs at the initial stage of an organised instruction, which are designed to introduce very young children, usually from age six to eight to a school type environment.
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